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These two firms recently settled with activist investors. While that lets them avoid a lengthy proxy war, we feel their shares will remain under pressure as the economy stalls.


FIRST CAPITAL REALTY INC. $16 is a hold. This real estate investment trust (Toronto symbol FCR.UN; Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 213.5 million; Market cap: $3.4 billion; Dividend yield: 5.4%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.fcr.ca) owns, develops and operates shopping centres throughout Canada....
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TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $83.77, Toronto symbol TD, is a buy.

The lender raised your quarterly dividend with the January 2023 payment by 7.9%. Investors now receive $0.96 a share instead of $0.89. The new annual rate of $3.84 yields a high 4.6%.

In March 2022, TD agreed to acquire U.S....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $22 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 309.9 million; Market cap: $6.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.4; Distribution yield: 4.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 193 shopping centres and other properties across Canada.


RioCan’s revenue in the fourth quarter of 2022 fell 9.0%, to $306.2 million from $336.4 million a year earlier....

You can see our Exchange-traded Funds Portfolio for April 2023 here.


ETFs in brief


Traditionally, exchange-traded funds were set up to mirror the performance of a specific stock-market index....
Growth this year for South Asia’s biggest economy is likely to come in at around 6%. That’s below its pre-pandemic growth rates of 8% or more, but it will still make India one of the world’s fastest-growing economies in 2023.


The country continues to face a weak healthcare system, poor infrastructure, and very slow implementation of much-needed economic and political reforms....
Exchange-traded funds have traditionally been managed as passive, index-tracking investment vehicles. But that continues to change as more promoters launch actively managed ETFs into the market. Active management is when a fund manager picks stocks on an ongoing basis, rather than aiming to match benchmark indexes....
To find the best growth stocks to buy now, take a broad view of the stocks available on the market and, above all, look for companies with a strong reputation